This directory contains R system
files representing the aggregated data sets analyzed in the book
Relative Distribution Methods in the Social Sciences, by
Mark S. Handcock and Martina Morris,
Springer-Verlag and Sons, New York, 1999.
The files have the suffix ".RData" and are R datasets
saved using the "save" function. They
are operating system (i.e., UNIX, Windows)
independent. They can be read in using the "load"
command
For example,
- Double click on the file to save it into the UNIX or PC sub-directory in which you use R.
- Start R e.g.: % R
- > load("RDBnls.RData")
- Alternatively load it directly over the Internet using:
- > load(url("http://faculty.stat.ucla.edu/handcock/RelDist/Data/R/RDBnls.RData"))
- In both cases the variables names are "original" and "recent".
The data:
Description of data sources, and further information about the data sets,
can be found in the book.